Provide a way to iterate over route handlers

[cpsievert]

It doesn't seem as though there is a way to iterate over all the handlers of a given route, which could be useful, for example, to add a prefix to every route path

[thomasp85]

Are there any other use cases for this that you could think of? For your use case I'd rather add a global mount point for the route...

[cpsievert]

I'd rather add a global mount point for the route

Do you have an example of doing this anywhere?

Are there any other use cases for this that you could think of?

I'm working on an authentication package, which will modify paths of existing routes to "protect views", like is done with flask here

[thomasp85]

The global mount point will get pushed soon - I think it has general applicability besides what we discuss here...

So, optimally you would like a way to map over the paths, and reassign the result?

[cpsievert]

So, optimally you would like a way to map over the paths, and reassign the result?

yep

[thomasp85]

are you thinking an interface where you provide a function that gets the method, path, and handler and then reassigns it itself, e.g.

route$remap_handlers(function(method, path, handler) {
  route$add_handler(method, paste0('/prefix', path), handler)
})

remap_handlers will then take care of removing all handlers up front so only whatever gets reassigned within the function is kept. In this way you have full flexibility in terms of changing both method, path and even handler function if you so wish

[cpsievert]

Yea, that looks good!